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MARY Hulgraine, the Kildare all-star footballer and mental health advocate, has been named the first recipient of the Christy Dignam Recovery Champion Award.

An investigation of Sleepy Hollow Police Lt. Stephen Dougherty includes an allegation that he groped a colleague's wife in 2017.

The Chair of the Bray Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force, Joe Maguire, highlighted the organisation’s “local response to a national problem” as he gave a presentation on its work at the October meeting of Bray Municipal District.

The Chair of the Bray Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force, Joe Maguire, highlighted the organisation’s “local response to a national problem” as he gave a presentation on its work at the October meeting of Bray Municipal District.

It has been announced today that the Wexford Cornmarket project is to be granted €80,000 in funding for community and voluntary organisations.Paul Delaney from the Cornmarket Project has welcomed the news and highlighted the importance of community drug projects in the war against addiction. 

Six months ago mindfulness teacher and former member of Cork Local Drugs and Alcohol Taskforce Gerry Raftery, tried to practice drinking mindfully. He ended up kicking the drink altogether

There is “an absolute plethora of issues” around drug use in Bray which the Chair of the Bray Drug and Alcohol Task Force hopes will be addressed following a submission to the Citizen’s Assembly on Drug Use.

The manager of the Bray Family Resource & Development Project, which is one of the stakeholders on the Bray Local Drug & Alcohol Task Force, said that there has been “a real change in drug use in Bray”, posing a danger to young people and causing a deterioration in those who are older.

Councillors from the Westport-Belmullet Municipal District have called for tougher punishments for convicted drug dealers

“It’s important we get a grip on this and be able to go after more vacant houses being used in this way,” said one TD.